Philadelphia -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was sentenced Wednesday to life with no parole in the death of one of three babies who died in his clinic .

He received the same sentence in the two other deaths Tuesday . Gosnell , 72 , was convicted Monday on three consecutive counts of first-degree murder for killing babies by cutting their spinal cords with scissors .

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said he doubts there would be a doctor that would think three consecutive life sentences `` is not a deterrent , '' but admitted that there might be criticism that Gosnell did n't get death .

`` We have shown him mercy where he failed to show mercy , '' Williams told reporters Wednesday . Williams ' office announced Tuesday that Gosnell agreed give up his right to appeal in exchange for avoiding a possible death sentence .

Judge Jeffrey Minehart , who rendered the decision , also sentenced Gosnell on Wednesday to 2Â 1/2 to 5 years in the case of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar , who died of an anesthetic overdose during an abortion at Gosnell 's West Philadelphia clinic .

Before sentencing , Mongar family attorney , Bernie Smalley Sr. , delivered a statement on behalf of her family .

`` She was a mother , a wife and a grandmother , '' Smalley said . `` They lost something that can never be returned . ''

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`` They will always mourn the loss . ''

Gosnell also was sentenced to 10 to 20 years each on two counts of conspiracy to commit murder . Those sentences will run concurrently . Additionally , he was sentenced to 10 to 20 years for running a corrupt organization .

When the judge asked if he had anything to say , Gosnell turned to his attorney Jack McMahon , smiled and said , `` Not at this time . ''

Defense attorney McMahon , in an impassioned , 2Â 1/2 - hour closing argument , said said that none of the infants were killed . Rather , he said , they were already dead as a result of Gosnell administering the drug Digoxin , which can cause abortion .

After the Wednesday court appearance , McMahon said Gosnell did not believe his acts constituted homicide and said his clinic `` was not a house of horrors ''

`` There was a lynching by the media prior to the trial , '' he said . `` Dr. Gosnell performed over 16,000 abortions , helped many young women . ''

McMahon said Gosnell knows that `` some of his methodology was wrong '' and that it was `` wrong to perform abortion past 24 weeks . In Pennsylvania , abortions past 24 weeks are illegal unless the health of the mother is at stake .

`` He bent the rules but he 's not a monster , '' McMahon said .

After the hearing , jurors spoke and they said it was tough to look at images of victims during the trial . David Misko said Gosnell is `` more of a predator than a monster . '' He said the trial was overwhelming and `` took an emotional toll . ''

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Gosnell 's co-defendant , Eileen O'Neill , 56 , was found guilty of conspiracy to operate a corrupt organization and two counts of theft by deception for operating without a license to practice medicine . O'Neill , a medical school graduate , was not charged with performing illegal abortions . She did not plead guilty .

Eight people involved in Gosnell 's clinic , called the Women 's Medical Society , earlier pleaded guilty to various charges . Four of them pleaded guilty to murder .

A grand jury report from 2011 says the `` people who ran this sham medical practice included no doctors other than Gosnell himself , and not even a single nurse , '' yet they still made diagnoses , performed procedures and administered drugs .

Gosnell also was accused of reusing unsanitary instruments ; performing procedures in filthy rooms , including some in which litter boxes and animals allegedly were present at the time ; and allowing unlicensed employees -- including a teenage high school student -- to perform operations and administer anesthesia .

The remains of aborted fetuses were stored in water jugs , pet food containers and a freezer at the clinic , the city 's chief medical examiner Sam Gulino testified .

Former employee Kareema Cross said Gosnell regularly performed illegal late-term abortions that he routinely recorded as `` 24.5 weeks . ''

McMahon , who called no witnesses , accused prosecutors of `` the most extraordinary hype and exaggeration in the history of the criminal justice system , '' even adding that they are `` elitist '' and `` racist . ''

Gosnell has been accused by authorities of preying on low-income , minority women . McMahon argued that Gosnell offered access to health care for people who were poor and without health insurance .

The doctor was first charged in January 2011 . The case has drawn national attention and sharp criticism from anti-abortion activists .

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Gosnell gets consecutive sentences of life without parole

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District attorney says of Gosnell : `` We have shown him mercy where he failed to show mercy ''

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Gosnell 's attorney says `` he bent the rules , but he 's not a monster ''